Author Topic: My Plot (Read 12639 times)

ACE · « **Reply #20 on:** April 02, 2008, 21:04:05 »

Quote from: betula on April 02, 2008, 20:14:09

Well you must get very muddy boots and compaction of your soil :)

As I have a wife, they get cleaned, but the ground is not as compacted as it would be under slabs.

tonybloke · « **Reply #21 on:** April 02, 2008, 21:08:35 »

a good plan, patrick, I live just round the corner, I pop and see you and your plot on fri or sat if you about?
rgds, tonybloke

betula · « **Reply #22 on:** April 02, 2008, 21:16:53 »

Quote from: ACE on April 02, 2008, 21:04:05

Quote from: betula on April 02, 2008, 20:14:09
Well you must get very muddy boots and compaction of your soil :)

As I have a wife, they get cleaned, but the ground is not as compacted as it would be under slabs.

Mmmmmmmmm I need time to consider a suitably cutting reply

Patrick King · « **Reply #23 on:** April 03, 2008, 01:19:55 »

Quote from: tonybloke on April 02, 2008, 21:08:35

a good plan, patrick, I live just round the corner, I pop and see you and your plot on fri or sat if you about?
rgds, tonybloke

Yeah i should be down there most of Friday and Saturday. it will be good to see you there.

aromatic · « **Reply #24 on:** April 03, 2008, 01:47:31 »

;D ;D ;D ;D ;D Think you are doing a stirling job patrick and many congratulations on what is a really massive plot, which should give you many hours of hard work, and personal satisfaction and hopefully a bumper crop or two!!

twinkletoes · « **Reply #25 on:** April 03, 2008, 07:17:57 »

tonybloke - you've got to turn your picture around - got a crick in my neck trying to see what it was. ;)
twinkletoes

Patrick King · « **Reply #26 on:** April 03, 2008, 08:20:23 »

now got myself a petrol strimmer/brushcutter only £30 i saw it advertised on the allotment gate. gonna go up to day and have go. will post updated pictures today.

ACE · « **Reply #27 on:** April 03, 2008, 08:59:05 »

Quote from: patrickking04 on April 03, 2008, 08:20:23

now got myself a petrol strimmer/brushcutter only £30 i saw it advertised on the allotment gate. gonna go up to day and have go. will post updated pictures today.

Sounds like a bargain, make sure you get some goggles. A tip I learnt years ago with a strimmer is to wear a sacking apron to take the force out of those little hard stones that flick up at the same height as your family jewels.

heyho · « **Reply #28 on:** April 03, 2008, 13:40:39 »

Search on crop rotation for information (there's some good articles on here as well). I might have got this link from this site:-

http://www.myallotments.com/CROP%20ROTATION.html

As for rotavating with all that grass there's some school of thought that says it isn't an issue and everything gets mulched in and you can pick up the roots, weeds etc as you finishing preparing it. Personally I think to clear as much as possible seems a more sensible idea.

Patrick King · « **Reply #29 on:** April 03, 2008, 15:34:17 »

ok, just back from the lottie. been strimming all the stuff i could see ;D. meet tonybloke today, nice chap. gave me some advise about how do my plot. i also got some dinner of a nice lady from the plot over the path from me, which had fresh chips from her plot. lovly

heres some picture of the site after strimming it. tomorrow im gona rake then mark out where i want my bed then dig them out. thanks tony.

Old bird · « **Reply #30 on:** April 03, 2008, 15:54:40 »

Hi Patrick

Are you a pilot in your spare time? How do you get your aerial photos?

I am nosy! Tell you what though you have a lovely plot!

I am in agreement with the others though you need less footpaths between beds and you will need less bed per vegetable! Some you will find you will only need 6feet length and you will be still overloaded and sick of the sight of them.

Sometimes it is as well just to work out roughly how many of which particular variety you enjoy eating and have lots of that and less of some things which are only occasional choices.

I never plant huge amounts of potatoes as my reasoning is that they are dirt cheap at the farms £5 for a huge sack and to me the ground is more useful to use on something that will cost a lot more to buy in the shops - if you get my drift!

(I know what I am talking about - I think?!)

Good luck anyway - it looks a super plot and you are really doing well with the clearing!

Old Bird ;D

Patrick King · « **Reply #31 on:** April 03, 2008, 16:00:25 »

thanks,

for the aerial picture i use http://www.maps.live.com
yeah after talking to tony i am going to replan the design to 1path 2beds 1 path and so on.

tonybloke · « **Reply #32 on:** April 03, 2008, 22:33:42 »

Quote from: twinkletoes on April 03, 2008, 07:17:57

tonybloke - you've got to turn your picture around - got a crick in my neck trying to see what it was. ;)
twinkletoes

how do i do that?

Patrick King · « **Reply #33 on:** April 03, 2008, 22:55:58 »

there you go tony. (right click, save picture as)

Patrick King · « **Reply #34 on:** April 03, 2008, 22:59:49 »

ow yeah im picking a shed up tomorrow from a friend who getting rid of it as he has bigger one and because it has a leak.(easy fix) cupa tea in the shed ;D

Patrick King · « **Reply #35 on:** April 04, 2008, 18:48:57 »

shed is up now, didnt get much else up as it took most of the moving panel by panel form my mates to my plot. i have made a frame for a window which i am going to cut into the shed. need to look over my plot while having a cuppa dont i ;D just gota wait now to see if any complains about where it is place. any ways back up there tomorrow to do a couple more beds. now that i have marked a few out.

grawrc · « **Reply #36 on:** April 04, 2008, 19:52:08 »

Sorry this is really off topic, but Ace does your missus do moonlighting? Got my boots really dirty today and no-one to clean them for me! ;) ;)

Uncle Joshua · « **Reply #37 on:** April 04, 2008, 20:37:36 »

How did you get that close with live search patrickking04 ? this is the closest I can get to mine....

Patrick King · « **Reply #38 on:** April 04, 2008, 21:05:58 »

wheres your plot i will have go then if i am able to get a better picture i will tell you how i did it.

Patrick King · « **Reply #39 on:** April 04, 2008, 21:17:10 »

Is this any better?

if so you have to click 3D and birds eye view, in this picture you can go closer.

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Author Topic: My Plot (Read 12639 times)